Turners Meets

Since it is only 6 more months till Christmas Denny decided it was time to start working on decorations. The pictures speak for themselves. The July 2014 woodturners’ meeting was highly influenced by PBS’ Create network which has a new show featuring woodturning with Tim Yoder.  The episode that inspired Denny was one of making […]

This month Denny made a natural edge bowl from a cherry log that Floyd gave him. He split the log in half and turned it leaving the bark on the lip of the bowl.

I wasn’t able to attend the April’s Turner’s meet, but Russ Wilt was kind enough to send some pictures. I don’t have any comments, but a picture is worth a 1000 word anyway. Sorry I missed it, it looks real interesting.    

This month Denny and a chunk of wood with Hibiscus written on it. No one ever seen a Hibiscus bush that big before, but that’s what was written on. It had a very white sapwood with a two-tone brown heartwood. It appeared to have come from the crotch of the tree. We discussed it and

About a half dozen members turned out to watch Denny turn a chalice as a demonstration.  One of our club members had asked him to turn one as a gift for a new priest at his church.  Before the demo, Denny had used his CAD program to design the chalice, and he had cut pieces

Denny surprised us on this one.  Does anyone want to fill in on the major step that is missing?       Content of this post provided by Andrew DiLorenzo.  Original photographs by John Phillips.

Part of the program for this meet is a turned ball to hold pencils.  Denny showed us how.   Contents of this post and original photographs provided by Andrew DiLorenzo.          

Denny had a real treat for us in his plans to turn a bowl from monkey pod wood.  His completed project appears in other posts and at the end of this one.  Denny’s audience was soon thrown into a sneezing fit as the fine dust from the monkey pod filled the air, and we finished